This problem statement tests pipe flow results suing both a lodi isothermal wall and sublimation boundary condition. The sublimation uses a very high latentHeatOfFusion resulting is no blowing and therefore should behave like a wall.

compressibleFlow/compressibleSublimationPipe.yaml

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test:
  # a unique test name for this integration tests
  name: compressibleSublimationPipe
  # run mpi with two ranks
  ranks: 2
  # create a default assert that compares the log file
  assert: "inputs/compressibleFlow/compressibleSublimationPipe/compressibleSublimationPipe.txt"

# metadata for the simulation
environment:
  title: _compressibleFlowPgsLodi
  tagDirectory: false
arguments: { }
# set up the time stepper responsible for marching in time
timestepper:
  name: theMainTimeStepper
  arguments:
    ts_type: rk
    ts_max_time: 100000
    ts_max_steps: 50
    ts_dt: 1.0E-10
    ts_adapt_safety: 0.9
  # io controls how often the results are saved to a file for visualization and restart
  io:
    interval: 5 # results are saved at every 5 steps.  In real simulations this should be much larger.

  # the BoxMeshBoundaryCells domain adds an extra layer of boundary cells to the outside of the domain and
  # tags these cells with special labels
  domain: !ablate::domain::BoxMeshBoundaryCells
    name: simpleBoxField
    faces: [ 50, 10 ]
    lower: [ 0.0, 0.0 ]
    upper: [ .5, .1 ]
    # pass in these options to petsc when setting up the domain.  Using an option list here prevents command line arguments from being seen.
    options:
      dm_refine: 0 # must be zero when using the BoxMeshBoundaryCells
    preModifiers:
      # if using mpi, this modifier distributes cells
      - !ablate::domain::modifiers::DistributeWithGhostCells
        ghostCellDepth: 2
    # add any modifications after the ghost boundaries have been set up
    postModifiers:
      # tag the boundary faces along the bottom boundary so that they can be excluded from the interior cells.  The flow solver can not reach into boundary cells/faces used by the sublimation boundary condition
      - !ablate::domain::modifiers::TagLabelInterface
        # tag the bottom boundary faces
        leftRegion:
          name: boundaryCellsBottom
        rightRegion:
          name: interiorCells
        boundaryFaceRegion:
          name: boundaryFaceBottom
      # remove the boundaryFaceBottom from the interiorCells and name the result as flowRegion
      - !ablate::domain::modifiers::SubtractLabel
        differenceRegion:
          name: flowRegion
        minuendRegion:
          name: interiorCells
        subtrahendRegions:
          - name: boundaryFaceBottom
        incompleteLabel: true
      - !ablate::domain::modifiers::GhostBoundaryCells
    fields:
      # all fields must be defined before solvers.  The ablate::finiteVolume::CompressibleFlowFields is a helper
      # class that creates the required fields for the compressible flow solver (rho, rhoE, rhoU, ...)
      - !ablate::finiteVolume::CompressibleFlowFields
        eos: !ablate::eos::PerfectGas &eos
          parameters:
            gamma: 1.4
            Rgas: 287.0
          # species are added to the flow through the eos.  This allows testing of the species transport equations
          species: [ N2, H2O, O2 ]
        # define the field only over the domain cells, this prevents cells from being defined in unused corners
        region:
          name: domain
      # by adding a pressure field the code will compute and output pressure
      - name: pressure
        location: AUX
        type: FVM
        region:
          name: domain
  # set the initial conditions of the flow field
  initialization:
    # The ablate::finiteVolume::CompressibleFlowFields is a helper
    # class that creates the required fields for the compressible flow solver (rho, rhoE, rhoU, ...)
    - !ablate::finiteVolume::fieldFunctions::Euler
      state:
        &flowFieldState
        eos: *eos
        pressure: 101325.0
        temperature: 300
        velocity: "0.0, 0.0"
        # individual mass fractions must be passed to the flow field state to compute density, energy, etc.
        other: !ablate::finiteVolume::fieldFunctions::MassFractions
          &massFractions
          eos: *eos
          values:
            - fieldName: N2
              field: "x > .1 ? .2 : 1.0"
            - fieldName: H2O
              field: " x> .1 ? .3 :0"
            - fieldName: O2
              field: " x > .1 ? .5 : 0"
    # the same state can be used to internalize the DensityMassFractions field from density and mass fractions
    - !ablate::finiteVolume::fieldFunctions::DensityMassFractions
      state: *flowFieldState
solvers:
  # The compressible flow solver will solve the compressible flow equations over the interiorCells
  - !ablate::finiteVolume::CompressibleFlowSolver
    id: vortexFlowField
    # only apply this solver to the flowRegion, area without faces
    region:
      name: flowRegion
    additionalProcesses:
      - !ablate::finiteVolume::processes::PressureGradientScaling
        &pgs
        eos: *eos
        alphaInit: 100.0
        maxAlphaAllowed: 100.0
        domainLength: 0.165354
        log: !ablate::monitors::logs::CsvLog
          name: pgsLog

    # a flux calculator must be specified to so solver for advection
    fluxCalculator: !ablate::finiteVolume::fluxCalculator::AusmpUp
      pgs: *pgs

    # cfl is used to compute the physics time step
    parameters:
      cfl: 0.5

    # the default transport object assumes constant values for k, mu, diff
    transport:
      &transportModel
      k: .2
      mu: .1
      diff: 1E-4

    # share the existing eos with the compressible flow solver
    eos: *eos

    monitors:
      # output the timestep and dt at each time step
      - !ablate::monitors::TimeStepMonitor

  # use a boundary solver to update the cells in the boundaryCellsLeft region to represent an inlet
  - !ablate::boundarySolver::BoundarySolver
    id: inlet
    region:
      name: boundaryCellsLeft
    fieldBoundary:
      name: boundaryFaces
    mergeFaces: false
    processes:
      - !ablate::boundarySolver::lodi::Inlet
        eos: *eos
        pgs: *pgs
        velocity: "min(10, 10*t), 0" # for stability, increase the velocity slowly

  # use a boundary solver to update the cells in the boundaryCellsRight region to represent an open pipe
  - !ablate::boundarySolver::BoundarySolver
    id: openBoundary
    region:
      name: boundaryCellsRight
    fieldBoundary:
      name: boundaryFaces
    mergeFaces: true
    processes:
      - !ablate::boundarySolver::lodi::OpenBoundary
        eos: *eos
        reflectFactor: 0.0
        referencePressure: 101325.0
        maxAcousticsLength: 1
        pgs: *pgs

  # use a boundary solver to update the cells in the boundaryCellsTop region to represent standard wall
  - !ablate::boundarySolver::BoundarySolver
    id: topBoundary
    region:
      name: boundaryCellsTop
    fieldBoundary:
      name: boundaryFaces
    mergeFaces: true
    processes:
      - !ablate::boundarySolver::lodi::IsothermalWall
        eos: *eos
        pgs: *pgs

  # use a boundary solver to update the cells in the boundaryCellsBottom region to represent standard wall with a Sublimation BC
  - !ablate::boundarySolver::BoundarySolver
    id: bottomBoundary
    region:
      name: boundaryCellsBottom
    fieldBoundary:
      name: boundaryFaces
    processes:
      - !ablate::boundarySolver::physics::Sublimation
        latentHeatOfFusion: 1E30 # very high to turn off boundary sublimation for testing
        transportModel: *transportModel
        eos: *eos
        pgs: *pgs
        massFractions: *massFractions
    monitors:
      # a monitor is needed to write to a hdf5
      - !ablate::monitors::BoundarySolverMonitor